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Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar

Edited by: Hector L. MacQueen

ISBN13: 9781474488761
Published: December 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £95.00



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Brings together 15 principal essays by David Sellar (1941–2019), reflecting his pioneering contribution to Scottish legal history.

  • Groups essays into topics, covering Celtic law and institutions, the influence of Canon and English law across a wide range of legal subjects (including family law, succession, criminal law, evidence) and customary law
  • Includes a paper written during Sellar’s time as Lord Lyon King of Arms (2008–14) but left unpublished at his death, dealing with the history of the office of Lyon itself and arguing for its ancient Celtic origins
  • Groups essays into topics, covering Celtic law and institutions, the influence of Canon and English law across a wide range of legal subjects (including family law, succession, criminal law, evidence) and customary law
  • Includes a general introduction by Hector L. MacQueen assessing and contextualising Sellar’s contribution to the field

David Sellar was a pioneering historian of Scots law who rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. He emphasised instead the continuity of legal development, with change a process of integration of external influences from very early times on. Sellar’s approach, articulated mainly through essays published in diverse places over four decades, significantly influenced our general understanding of legal history in Scotland as well as leading to appreciation elsewhere of its comparative significance.

By gathering Sellar's major essays in a single collection, this book demonstrates the scope and reach of Sellar’s overall contribution. It provides an opportunity to view Sellar’s work as a whole and to access his distinctive perspective on the overall trajectory of Scottish law.

Subjects:
Scots Law
Contents:
Introduction: David Sellar, Legal Historian,
H.L. MacQueen
1. The Continuity of Scottish Legal History: An Overview
Part I: Celtic Law and Birlaw: Customary Law
1. Celtic Law and Scots Law: Survival and Integration
2. Marriage, Divorce and Concubinage in Gaelic Scotland
3. The Lyon and the Seannachie
4. Birlaw Courts and Birleymen
Part II: The Influence of English Law
1. English Law as a Source of Stair’s Institutions
2. The Resilience of the Scottish Common Law
3. Scots Law: Mixed from the Very Beginning? A Tale of Two Receptions
Part III: The Influence of Canon Law: Marriage, Divorce and Homicide
1. Marriage by Cohabitation with Habit and Repute: Review and Requiem?
1. Marriage, Divorce and the Forbidden Degrees: Canon Law and Scots Law
1. Forethocht Felony, Malice Aforethought and the Classification of Homicide
Part IV: The Influence of English and Canon Law: Succession
1. Juridical Acts Made in Contemplation of Death
2. Succession
3. Courtesy, Battle and the Brieve of Right, 1368
Part V: The Influence of the European Jus Commune
1. Promise
2. Presumptions